Past-to-Present

Beginning of Evolution

Mar 8, 1700

I think the comparison of the apes and humans was the most significant event because it opened the door to having species that are totally different, related to eachother through a common ancestor. Not only just between species but embryo's and structure shapes. I think that part is really cool how a rabbit looks like humans while an embryo.

Buffon

Mar 8, 1707

Humans and Apes share a common ancester
"chain of being"
Physiology/Anatomy
World is 6000 years old (according to the bible)

Lamarck

Mar 8, 1744

Traits are aquired over a life time
Traits can be passed on
Traits closing on perfection
Inheritence of adquired characteristics
Use & Disuse
Fast

Cuvier

Mar 8, 1769

Catastrophism (revolutions)
Extinctions
Paleontology
Unique fossil layers
Adaptions over time

Lyell

Mar 8, 1797

Geology
Uniformitarianism (world is old)
Slow and suble changes
Can populations to? (rose awareness)

Darwin

Mar 8, 1809

Natural Selection
Flowers and animals of different regions were distinct
Traits can be passed on
Species looks identical but varied in geographical locations
1831- Darwin left England to explore the natural history of other countries
Origin of Species
-present forms have modified from an ancestral species
-Modification is natural selection
Darwin published his book Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859
Survive, Reproduce, + frequency "advantageous traits" population

Wallace

Mar 8, 1823

Co-discover of natural selection
Populations change over time
Competition for resources
-increased chance of survival to reproduce
-decreased variety based on select traits
Gradual Changes

Cell Bio/ Genetics

Mar 8, 1900

cell is the way life forms and is very important in mutation,